D&S affiliate Anthony Townsend writes about city charter reform. The civic tech gang for some reason — probably because it is their target and they are nibbling off what they think they can actually achieve in the short ru... Read on Medium

In this blogpost, Jade E. Davis argues against the myth of bootstrapping in education equality. "Those who are imagined as less American might see a single generational gain with successive generations seeing some benefit. But... Read on Medium

D&S founder danah boyd critiques traditional media's response to the September 17th bombings in NYC. Traditional news media has a lot of say in what it publishes. This is one of the major things that distinguishes it from ... Read on Medium

In this blogpost, Audrey Watters challenges accountability processes in the current public school system. "So when we think about “what counts” and who’s held to account under public education’s accountability regime, it’s sti... Read on Medium

Anil Dash analyzes how 'teaching kids to code' does not address the wider inequities that prevent diversity in tech. Many tech companies are still terrible at inclusion in their hiring, a weakness which is even more unacceptab... Read on AnilDash.com

D&S affiliate Karen Crawford wrote a compelling piece, sparked by Facebook's censorship of "The Terror of War" photograph, on the social impacts of artificial intelligence. The core issue here isn’t that AI is worse than t... Read on Medium

D&S project coordinator Emily Keller discusses the need to address environmental responsibility in device ownership, creation, and discarding. "Achieving maximum efficiency and increasing the use of renewable energy to p... Read on Points

D&S fellow Zara Rahman wrote a piece on GenderIt discussing what it means for the internet to become feminist. A feminist internet can mean many things, it means that everyone has affordable, unconditional, open, meaningfu... Read on GenderIT.org

D&S researcher Claire Fontaine writes a compelling piece analyzing whether or not school performance data reinforces segregation. Data is great at masking its own embedded bias, and school performance data allows privilege... Read on Connected Learning Alliance

In “Disentangling the real and potential risks of advertising in schools” D&S research analyst Alexandra Mateescu teases apart the difference between real and hypothetical risks of advertising in schools. Mateescu discusses... Read on Medium